Hello everyone! Welcome to Bibliophilia Book Reviews…again. My name is Melina, and I am a bibliophile, a lover of books, a bibliophage, an ardent reader and a bibliotaph. I hoard books. I am all things biblio. In this blog, I review books of different genres including literary fiction, nonfiction, memoirs, fantasy, YA, and others. Please feel free to turn the page and look around. Hopefully, one of my reviews will help you decide to pick up a book or not. If you’re interested in a review for your published book, please click here to get on my wish list. Happy…
MARCH 2026: Best and Worst Books of the Month
Hi everyone. Today, I’ll be talking about the best and worst books I read in March. This month, however, I’m doing things a little different. Given that I don’t have a specific book that I disliked this month, I am ranking the books I did like from worst to best. Disclaimer: I will not include the memoir I read in this list. I will, however, add the 3 books I DNF’d this month. The first is the one I didn’t like the most: 10. Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave: My Cemetery Journeys by Mariana Enriquez (DNF) I wanted to…
MARCH WRAP UP: What I Read This Month
Hi everyone! Welcome back to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. Today, I’m reviewing the books I read in March. I apologize for such a late post, but here it is. I read 8 books last month. Here are my thoughts on all of them: 1. HISTORICAL FICTION AND WWI: All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque This novel, written by Erich Maria Remarque and first published in 1928, “follows young German soldiers during World War I, focusing on the brutal reality of trench warfare and the profound disillusionment and trauma these young soldiers experience, stripping away patriotic ideals to…
FANTASY READS 2026: Book of the Month
This month the prompt is to read a book from an author that is not from your country. The book I chose is “The Iron King” by Maurice Druon.
CLÁSICOS Y MÁS: Book of the Month
Hey everyone, I’m a bit late with this post this month. But here it is. The prompt for the month of April for this book club is to read a book from the 19th Century, so I chose “La Regenta” by Leopoldo Alas “Clarín”. I first read this book in college, but I wanted to pick it up again now that I have also read Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy and Emma Bovary by Gustave Flaubert. After, I want to write a post comparing all three novels.
BOOK REVIEW: The Shadow of the Gods by John Gwynne
Introduction John Gwynne is the author of the popular epic fantasy series’ The Faithful and The Fallen, Of Blood and Bone, and The Bloodsworn Saga. Malice, the author’s debut novel and the first book of The Faithful and The Fallen won the David Gemmell Morningstar Award for Best Fantasy Debut in 2012, while the other three novels of the series, Valour, Ruin, and Wrath, were all shortlisted for the David Gemmell Legend Award for Best Fantasy Novels of 2014, 2015 and 2016, while Wrath won the BookNest Awards for Best Traditionally Published Novel in 2017. The Bloodsworn Saga, the author’s…
BOOK REVIEW: Querido Diego, te abraza Quiela (Dear Diego) by Elena Poniatowska
Introduction Querido Diego, te abraza Quiela (Dear Diego) by Elena Poniatowska is a short novel (less than 100 pages) written as a series of letters from Russian painter Angelina (Quiela) Beloff to her (then) partner Diego Rivera. At the beginning of the novel, Diego has returned to Mexico after living in Paris for 10 years, where he painted in a cubist style. However, disillusioned with the Parisian art scene, he returns to Mexico “driven by a desire to participate in the government-sponsored mural program and create public art after the Mexican Revolution. With this project, the new Mexican postrevolutionary government…
BOOK REVIEW: Esta noche moriré by Fernando Marías
Introduction Esta noche moriré (Tonight, I will die) by Fernando Marías is a short novel originally published in 1992. The edition I read, published by Alrevés Editorial to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the first edition in this collection (1996), includes a theatrical monologue based on this novel and adapted by Vanessa Montfort. Fernando Marías was a Spanish author (born in Bilbao, Biscay) whose debut novel La luz prodigiosa (The End of a Mystery) in 1990 won the Ciudad de Barbastro Award in Spain and was adapted to film in 2003. In this novel, a former mechanic suspects that a…
FEBRUARY 2026: Best and Worst Books of the Month
Hi everyone. Today, I’ll be talking about the best and worst books I read in February. 1.WORST BOOK OF THE MONTH: Los cuadernos de don Rigoberto (The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto)by Mario Vargas Llosa I picked this book up as my romance read for the month of February in one of my book clubs. It is not a HEA romance though. I didn’t like any of the characters, and though the main characters were deeply in love, they were also unlikeable. They are terrible people. Granted, Vargas Llosa’s use of ecphrasis is superb in this novel and as a whole it…
FEBRUARY WRAP UP: What I Read This Month
Hi everyone! Welcome back to Bibliophilia Book Reviews. Today, I’m reviewing the books I read in February. I read 7 books last month. Here are my thoughts on all of them: 1. NONFICTION AND SCIENCE: Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green When I picked this book up, I was expecting a (short) scientific account of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacteria that causes tuberculosis (TB), and the history of how medicine has worked hard to combat it but this is not we get. What we get, instead, is a glimpse (a very small one but nonetheless very affecting glimpse) of the lives…
BOOK REVIEW: Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson
Introduction Warbreaker is an epic fantasy novel by Brandon Sanderson published in 2009. Today, Sanderson is one of the most prolific fantasy writers in the US. He is a very popular and very much-loved author, whose books have garnered a huge fanbase throughout the years. Sanderson also features in innumerable must-read fantasy lists on the Internet and his name is prominent in fantasy genre fiction. His books are slowly becoming classics in the genre. There is even a Wiki website (Coppemind.net/wiki/Coppermind:Welcome) and several podcasts dedicated to Brandon Sanderson’s universe and books (for example, The Sanderlanche Podcast). Warbreaker is a standalone…